Sy. Hsu et Jm. Valles, MAGNETIC-FIELD-INDUCED PAIR-BREAKING EFFECTS IN GRANULAR PB FILMS NEAR THE SUPERCONDUCTOR-TO-INSULATOR TRANSITION, Physical review. B, Condensed matter, 48(6), 1993, pp. 4164-4167
We have measured the magnetic-field dependence, 0 less-than-or-equal-t
o- H less-than-or-equal-to 8 T, of the resistive transitions R (T) of
ultrathin granular superconducting Pb films with normal-state sheet re
sistances, R(Q) less-than-or-equal-to R(N) less-than-or-equal-to 100 k
OMEGA, where R(Q) = h/4e2 congruent-to 6.45 kOMEGA. The data suggest t
hat the magnetic-field-induced superconductor-to-insulator transition
in these films occurs in a field regime where pair-breaking effects ha
ve significantly reduced the amplitude of the superconducting order pa
rameter. We compare our results with those obtained on systems with un
iform morphologies.